SNG stats so far

I'm trying to see what level sng i can start producing at. I really haven't had a hard time playing them. Heres some shots from sharkscope.






Next post will probably be on Thursday, maybe I'll actually start doing topics?

For the boys

6:00 pm....




9:00 pm....

Off Day

Had to work all day today, so I didn't play at all. I get done a little early tomorrow, so I'll probably be playing before the college ball games go on.

Lets Get it Started

First off, I'd just like to remind everyone that my New York Football Giants won the Super Bowl this year. I had to rub that in a little bit. Well where to begin? As most of you guys know my bankroll was depleted due to being used to pay bills. I have a new job now and everything is good. I have a nice stable income so I'm able to build my roll once again. I put $50 back on FT around 3.5 weeks ago and I've run it up to $440. I've been playing within my bankroll and actually playing all three types of poker online(cash, sngs, mtt). I started playing $2 turbos and doubled my roll pretty quickly. Then I switched over to playing a bunch of PLO Cash. I've been doing extremely well there. Nothing really spectacular considering I don't have a big sample yet.

My MTT game is starting to come into shape. I've been getting deep in a lot of tournaments and making a final table here and there. I did have a nice showing last night in one of the Knockout Sit-n-Go's. I took 2nd in a 10+1 for $140.40 and I had 5 knockouts which bumped it up to $150.40. That was a nice bankroll booster. Anyway I'm excited to start posting again and talkin to the rest of the bloggers. Hopefully I'll be able to jump in some of those tournaments that they run also.

Happy Easter

Ahh, its good to be back. Hope everyone has a great Sunday, and I'll have a post up later today

Blog on Hiatus until January 1st

If i didn't find time in October and November to post, no chance I get to in December. The blog will re-launch in January. A new league will be forming in the home game that I'll be keeping track off. For now everyone have a safe and happy holiday season.

Lack of Updates

Yea I havent been posting much. My new job started and I just haven't found the time. Hopefully a nice update this weekend.

Nice Little Update

If I remember everything that went on the last few days, we're going to have a nice little long update here. Included in this update will be how cash is going, a couple of deep finishes in tournaments, football (obv), absolute poker scandal, and maybe some more football.

I'm over half way done with the 20k cash hand goal for the month. With the half way point in October coming up in the next few days, I'm happy where I am. What's been helping me get my hands in this month; has been the Iron Man program on FT. I haven't decided what is better to do yet, the Freeroll, or the medals--but for now I chose the medals. I'm on pace to get Gold status through 100 points a day.

One of the biggest losing plays for me has been playing the short stacks too much. I havent figured out a real good way to play hands like AK against them. Take this hand for instance...

Seat 3: Villain ($10.70)
Seat 1: trixter23 ($26.95)

Dealt to trixter23 [Ah Kh]

Villain raises to $0.85

Villain is in 2nd position here. He has less than a half stack. So whats your play with AK here?

trixter23 raises to $2.95

I decided to make a healthy 3 bet.

Villain calls $2.10

*** FLOP *** [Jd 6h Ts]

Ok well now what. We completely missed the flop, but have a gutshot, 2 overs, and backdoor flush draw. Are we going to miss value by not 3 betting pre flop? I think you are. If you cold call, check/fold the flop, I think thats just too weak. Back to the flop. We're in kind of a pickel. There is a chance we bet this flop and take it down there. What if we get raised all in? There is 6 bucks in the pot, combined with our c-bet; there will be too much money in the pot to fold. What do you do here?

trixter23 bets $3
Villain raises to $7.75, and is all-in
trixter23 calls $4.75

Villain shows [9s 9h]
trixter23 shows [Ah Kh]

So as you can see, we put the c-bet out there and had to call his all-in. Granted a competent player is probably folding 9's here, remember we're playing 25NL against someone who doesnt buy in for the max; less half a stack.

*** TURN *** [Jd 6h Ts] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 6h Ts Th] [5d]

As you can see, we had a substantial amount of outs and didnt hit. I'm a firm believer in aggression in poker, and I stick with it. I try not to be results oriented, but after this happens numerous times, you start to 2nd guess yourself. Especially considering when you look at my stats for AK. So far this month I've had AKs 28 times for a 60% win ratio and -$37.70 overall. I'm not sure whether this is a leak or what. I'm interested to see how others play these types of hands, not just AK.


While cash hasn't been going great this month, I've been able to stay afloat thanks to tournaments. I haven't been playing that many but have been getting some good results. I played the daily double on Saturday Night. In the A tournament I went out 263rd, with 216 cashing, but in the B tournament I made it deep for 15th and a $135 dollar cash. Today on PokerStars they had the WBCOOP(World Bloggers Championship of Online Poker). I decided to look at the structure expecting to see the standard $1500 chip 15 min level tournament. Surprisingly it was the Sunday Million structure with 10k in chips.




There were some really good prizes being offered. First being a PCA package worth $12k, 2nd being a 50" plasma tv and so on. You can see the other prizes through the link above. I was running pretty good while not getting dealt too much. My puff on PXF for the tourney was 26. It wasn't too tough to accumulate chips as players were playing with their cards face up for the most part. Here's a shot of me getting my squeeze on late in the tournament.




I misplayed a hand quite bad and found myself with 92k at 5k/10k level. It was our favorite time in the tournament, that being push/fold poker. I shoved KJ from the hijack and got insta called by AT and I didnt get there. The tournament paid out through the 81st spot and I did get paid. Unfortunately it was the worst payout. I'll be receiving the Elusive PokerStars duffle bag and Plastic Cards(Which I'm sure the home game nuts will be happy about). I couldn't hold off another 9 spots to get an Ipod though could I Lee?




College Football this week was of course another Upset Saturday. Both #1 and #2 teams losing for the first time in a while. I'd love to see everytime lose and leave us with about 10 teams all with 1 loss so the BCS fails miserably. In a clash of unbeatens in the NFL, New England stuck it to the Cowboys. The Patriots just play freakishly well. If they beat the Colts, I wouldnt be surprised if they 1) stayed healthy and 2) didnt rest people at the end of the season. The GGGGGGGGGGG-Men play tomorrow night in the Dirty Dirty aka Atlanta. I'm tired of people saying this is a trap game for the Giants. Ok, for one you have to be a good team to have trap games. While I believe we are a decent team, we aren't 5-1. Also you have to have a big game coming up. Considering we play the 49ers next week, we don't have that going for us. Now if we run the table and go 6-2 going into the bye week, we'll be in good shape.



The last thing I wanted to speak about is the supposed Absolute Poker Scandal that is being talked about on Pocket 5's and 2+2. To save yourselves some time. For a while it was thought that a certain group of players could see everyone's hole cards. TheWacoKidd(Jared Hamby) got a hold of the HH from the tournament which AP gave him. It was a full excell file with ip's and ALL whole cards exposed. Some pretty solid and concrete evidence has been brought forth proving what everyone has thought all along. I strongly urge everyone to read one of those threads and immediately withdraw all your funds from there.

I think thats about it for now, see ya at the tables.

WBCOOP

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 2824834

Couple of Things

This month so far is going pretty crappy. I've logged a little over 5600 hands at 25NL and 400'ish at 50NL. While I'm roughly 35% done with the goal of 20k hands for the month, I'm down $22 dollars so far, which is god awful. I'm actually playing way better at 50NL than 25NL. Granted I did tilt off a few buy ins at 25NL one night, I still shouldn't be in the hole.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1571140
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1571141

Those are 2 hands that I played today. The 1st one is a no brainer, the 2nd one I actually put him on AK, the pre flop call was EXTREMELY close, as I think I was right where I needed to be for odds purposes. The board just kept getting better and better for him, what can ya do?

I took all the money I had on Absolute off a couple weeks ago. I was changing my password and noticed my rakeback got put into my account. For some reason I decided to play the $1 rebuy at 3am. What a friggin mistake that was. I made my 2nd final table out of 4 tourneys and took 3rd. I went out after I got it all in on a flop of TT9 with 77 and the guy called with K5 after he cold called my pf raise. lol donkaments.



It was such a waste of time though. I didn't get to bed till around 7:30am, and I only made $50. God only knows what I was thinking entering this thing.

The GGGGGGGG-Men reeled off another victory against the Jets this past Sunday. It's the 3rd in a row for the Giants, and everything is on the up and up going into Atlanta on Monday Night Football. Antonio Pierce did an amazing job getting the defense set up in gaps and positioning players around the field. I don't know how many times he knew exactly where the ball was going. I was wondering why rookie Aaron Ross wasn't starting, but it was later said he was on a 1 half suspension by coach Tom Coughlin. He sure made his presence known in the 2nd half though.

*photo courtesy of giants.com

Probably the game of the year so far was played in Buffalo Monday Night. No matter how hard the Cowboys tried giving the Bills the win, they just let it slip away. I put the entire blame on Dick Jauron and the Defensive Coordinator. There is 13 seconds left, and they have 0 timeouts, where do you think they are going with the ball? I mean, I would have put a wall up on each sideline and kept a few in the middle. They wont have enough time to get the fg team in. Instead they give the wr's an 8 yard cushion and let them run a 6 yard out. Well those 6 yards cost you the game fellas. It's gettin late, I'll get ya another update some time this week.

Lets Go Giants!!!

I didn't mean to turn this into a football blog, but that's kind of what happened. I've been playing quite a bit and haven't really had too much time to post. Hopefully I'll start up again this week. Hey G-Men, can we make it 3 in a row?

GGGGGGGGG-Men!

My oh my. What a dominating defensive performance last night by the Giants. Forget Strahan, Forget Osi, the player of the game was Filfadelphia's left tackle Winston Justice. He was getting totally blown off the ball every play. I mean it was to the point where Osi was off the ball and past him before he even got out of his stance! And if it's one thing you know about the NFL this year...is you just dont know anything. Bears 1-3. Chargers 1-3. Lions, dare I say, 3-1???? After the first quarter of the season, it looks like we're going to have a fun one. Here's a pic of the tailgate just after we got it setup. We had 2 off the camera, and about 6 stragglers who got there late.



Goal for this month will be 20k cash hands played maintaining a 5 PTBB/100. This should be possible. I'm not really a heavy volume player. I will be starting training for a new job at the end of the month so I need to get them in early. Hopefully I will update and keep on this goal, unlike all the ones in the past.

AC Report and Cash Game Hand

We were only going to be down in AC for a day, and not a full one at that, so we really had to maximize our time for playing. We all played the $65 Showboat tourney, which is a bigger minefield than any online tourney. That day it wasn't much different. The structure is really accelerated to the point where you're only playing 2 levels before you start to get under 15bb's. You get T10,000 chips to start with, but the blinds start at 50/100. Unfortunately, we started 11 handed, which is absolutely ridiculous. I played 0, count em, 0 hands the first level. I was just pretty much card dead, and I wasn't in the mood to try and outplay these people, cuz they are just not going to fold. The 3rd hand into the 2nd level, I pick up KK utg and raise it up to 600. I get 4 callers and we see a flop of.

Jd Tc 3h

This is as good as I can get a flop for having 4 callers. I fire in a little over 2/3 the pot which was 17 or 1800 i forget and get 1 caller.

As

Comes on the turn. I thought if he was cold calling with a Jack here, he might let go of his hand to a 2 barrel. If not, I have 4 outs to a straight, and 2 more to a King if he isn't on a straight draw. I bet 2000, and he calls again.

9h

Is the river card. In my estimation this was a brick, because if he had KQ I would have saw a raise on the turn w/out a doubt. I check over to him, not wanting to get raised. He throws a single 1k chip in the middle. With so much money in the pot I looked him up and he flips over..

AQhh

Love it. The very next hand UTG raises to 800 pre flop and gets 4 callers. I look down at KK once again. For some reason instead of just shoving the rest of my 5k or so chips in the middle, I make it 4k lol. UTG calls, and one of the limpers calls. With over 15k in the pot the flop comes down. I was all in before or after the flop I forget how it went, but I wasn't folding at any time obv.Qd Jd 3dUTG checks, and the other guy puts him all in. He says he had Kings, and folded. I flip over my Kings and the table is agasp that we had the same hand, except I have the diamond. The limper flips JJ for a set of jacks, weeeeeeeee. I didn't get there and I was out after playing 2 hands.

We went down to Taj to play a little cash. Barry and I coincidentally got seated right next to each other. Our jaws would hit the table after every hand to see how bad these people were playing. Nothing really new from your typical B&M 1-2 game. It was just an extra loose one. You really couldn't play a hand unless you got someone heads up or limp called and caught a monster. The only real hand that I made money on was this one..

There were 4 limpers ahead..lol. I look down at QQ and raise to $20. I get 2 callers and the flop comes 9s 5c 5s. It's checked to me and I make it $20 again. One guy folds, and the other calls. The turn comes Jd. He leads into me for $15 and I just shove for my remaining $106 hahahah. He calls and flips over...J7 of spades weeeeee. He bricks on the river and I double up. We left shortly after that.

Yesterday I was watching the FT of the WCOOP Event #4. It had been running since 4:30 the day BEFORE. Talk about tons of play. Anyway, I had cash going on the side when this interesting hand came up. As a background, I had a lot of hands on my opponent and how he plays. Combined with the table dynamics, of the rest of them playing extremely tight. We had been staying away from each other for the most part. He was opening a lot of pots and this time I thought I'd take advantage of him. I had a playable hand with AT. No I don't 3 bet with it often, but this time I did.

Me ($37.65)
Villain ($51.45)

Dealt (As Th)
Villain raises $.50 to $.75
I raise $2 to $2.75 from the button.

[Jc 8s 4s]

The flop comes with just a flush draw, other than that and we're ok here for a C bet. Sometimes I check behind flops like this in fear of getting c/r out of the pot. It's a good thing I did here.

Villain checks
I check

[Jc 8s 4s][Tc]

Alright so we hit a ten here. We get led into for $4.25. Well what kind of hand are we up against here. Was he opting to check/raise us on the flop with something like AQss or another hand like that, does he have a set of Jacks thinking I will just shove with an over pair here? I''m not really sure at this point, but I decide to call.

Villain bets $4.25
I call $4.25

[Jc 8s 4s][Tc][Ad]

Now the Ace comes on the river(weeeeee) giving us two pair. But is it good? I can get him to lay down QQ KK here on a big river bet now. If he has AKss im beat, but if it's off suit I'm still good. I'm worried about a set of jacks and AKss. Those are what I was putting him on. Does the river warrant a bet? I'm not sure, and this is the point of the hand I think I messed up on because most of the time I'm actually beat here.

Villain checks
I bet $6
Villain raises $38.45 to $44.45 and is all-in

Wow, now at this point I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit. I have to be beat here right? The problem was I had a little over half my stack in the middle. I was getting pretty good odds to call here and pick off his missed draw. And that's exactly what we do.

I call $16.65

*Showdown*
Villain shows Ts 7s (a pair of tens)
I show...the winning hand obv.

I pick up the pot and before ya know it, the verbal spew age begins from him.."OH how can you 3 bet with AT, wow why did you do that"? All I say in response is, you CALLED my 3 bet with T7 which is not only a GARBAGE hand to play oop, but one that you were dominated with, so GFY AND SMD. And that was that.

What a Disaster

Well we didn't do so hot in College this week. I thought the games were going to be much closer, so I took the points in most cases. In the NFL we did ok.

College: 2-8
College Overall: 14-16
College Lock: 1-2

NFL: 5-4-1
NFL Overall: 10-9-1
NFL Lock: 1-1

Picks for the Week

I was going to make a little post on AC and interesting hands. The home game ran late tonight so I'm just going to post the selections for now.

College

1) Pitt @ Michigan St -9.5

Pick: Michigan St

2) Virginia @ North Carolina -3.5

Pick: North Carolina

3) Miss State @ Auburn -13.5

Pick: Miss St

4) Iowa @ Iowa St +15.5

Pick: Iowa

5) Ohio St @ Washington +3.5

Pick: Washington

6) Notre Dame @ Michigan -9.5

Pick: Notre Dame

7) Tennessee @ Florida -8.5

Pick: Tennessee

8) Boston College @ Georgia Tech -6.5

Pick: BC

9) USC @ Nebraska +9.5

Pick: Nebraska

10) Arkansas @ Alabama -3.5

Pick: Arkansas

Lock of the Week

Texas Tech @ Rice +28

Pick: Texas Tech


NFL

1) Houston @ Carolina -6.5

Pick: Texans

2) Colts @ Titans +7.5

Pick: Titans

3) Packers @ Giants PK

Pick: Packers

4) Saints @ Bucs +3.5

Pick: Saints

5) Bengals @ Browns +6.5

Pick: Bengals

6) Bills @ Steelers +9.5

Pick: Bills

7) 49ers @ Rams -3

Pick: 49ers

8) Jets @ Ravens -10

Pick: Ravens

9) Vikings @ Lions -3

Pick: Lions

10) Chargers @ New England -3

Pick: Patriots

Lock of the Week

Dallas @ Miami +3.5

Pick: Dallas

Ugh

Injuries again. Same story as last year that crippled my G-Men early in the season. Eli looked fantastic...until he got injured. It's lookin to be a long year. As far as picks go, I'm happy to break even for the week. And if you want a sure winner, just pick the opposite team I pick for lock of the week. I'll be headin down to AC in an hour or two, so there will be a trip report up when I come back or tomorrow.

College Picks: 5-5
College Overall: 12-8
College Locks: 0-2

NFL Picks: 5-5
NFL Overall: 5-5
NFL Locks: 0-1

Picks for the Week

This is going to be one tough week. There are so many games that I could go either way on. I'm going to say I'm not too confident in this weeks games. I usually stay away from betting NFL games the first 2 weeks, just because you really don't know how teams are going to play. College is a little bit different since the big name schools schedule cupcakes the first couple of weeks. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say this will be one of hte toughest weeks of the year.

College

1) Nebraska @ Wake Forest +7.5

Easy pick here with Nebraska. Wake's starting quarterback got hurt in the game against Boston College last week. The black shirts are going to eat up sophomore Brett Hodges

Pick: Nebraska

2) Miami @ Oklahoma -10.5

This is one of those games I was talking about earlier. I like Oklahoma here to win, but I think it's going to be a closer game than most people think. Miami's passing attack is horrific. Freeman passed for a meager 87 yards last week against Marshall. I'm going to rely on Miami's defense and running game to keep this matchup close. Sam Bradford is unproven to date, so Randy Shannon is going to need to send the house all day.

Pick: Miami

3) Alabama @ Vanderbilt +4.5

I like Bama here. If the spread was higher than 7, I think I would have went vandy. True freshman Terry Grant needs to have another great game to Roooooolllllllllll up the score for me.

Pick: Alabama

4) Rice @ Baylor -6.5

No comment.

Pick: Rice

5) NC State @ Boston College -16.5

Look for Matt Ryan to have another monster day. Ex BC coach Tom O'Brien goes back to BC for the first time since leaving the team. Think it will help? I don't.

Pick: Boston College

6) Oregon @ Michigan -6.5

Ugh. How can I pick against my Ducks here? With Dixon running the spread formation, it could drive the wolverines into fits. One of the big questions is how the fans will react coming back to the scene of the crime last week. I think they have too much to avenge and will take care of the Ducks...and their uniforms.

Pick: Michigan

7) S. Carolina @ Georgia -6.5

Quarterback Blake Mitchell comes back from suspension to start for the Ol' ball coach. It still won't be enough to overcome the bulldogs.

Pick: Georgia

8) Notre Dame @ Penn St -14.5

Points, points and more points. I don't think it could get much worse than last week for the Irish. I think Weiss, compounded his losses by switchings qb's every quarter last week. It's not going to get much easier for Clausen when he travels to Happy Valley and runs into a white out.

Pick: Penn St

9) BYU @ UCLA -7.5

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Bruins

Pick: UCLA

10) Virginia Tech @ LSU -8.5

I just cant get over last week when VT only put up 17 on ECU. You would think everything that was going on they would just come out and pound it down the pirates' throats. Just like LSU did in their game against Miss St when they owned 45-0.

Pick: LSU

*Pick of the Week*

Hawaii @ Louisiana Tech +28

Colt Brennan threw up 5 td's and over 400 yards last week....in the first half

Pick: Hawaii


NFL

1) Steelers @ Browns +3.5

Charlie Frye = ......? (enter your own adjective)

Pick: Steelers

2) Titans @ Jaguars -5.5

All Vince does is win. Unfortunately he's going to have to do even more than last year now that he has NO wide receivers. Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones-Drew will take tons of pressure off David Garrard and the Jags will get the win.

Pick: Jaguars

3) Eagles @ Packers +2.5

The line should be hire in this game. I don't see how the eagles arent a bigger favorite. As much as I would love to see the Eagles lose their opener, it just isnt going to happen.

Pick: Eagles

4) Dolphins @ Redskins -3.5

This game is a tossup. Jason Campbell can be a breakout player this year, if he gets some protection and their WR's stay healthy. On the other hand the Dolphins offense has tons of question marks also. I'm gonna play it safe here and just take the points

Pick: Dolphins

5) Patriots @ Jets +5.5

This is a tough one. Patriots will get the win, but it's a divisional game and the Jets always play them tough. If I could flip flop on a game it would be this one.

Pick: Patriots

6) Falcons @ Vikings +3.5

Joey Harrington vs Tavaris Jackson

Pick: Falcons

7) Chargers @ Bears +6.5

I don't think Rex is going to be able to keep up with the scoring of San Diego

Pick: San Diego

8) Chiefs @ Texans -3

This is one of 2 BLAH games of the week. I'm going to go with the home team since Matt Schaub is a stud

Pick: Texans

9) Lions @ Raiders -2.5

The 2nd of hte BLAH games this week. I'm going to go with the defensive force of the RRRRRRRRRaiders.

Pick: Raiders

10) New York Giants @ Dallas Cowboys -6.5

Cmon, do you really think I'm gonna go against my team here? In my upset special this week, the GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG-Men over the boys, outright. You heard it here first.

Pick: Giants

*Pick of the Week*

Denver @ Buffalo +3

Pick: Denver

2007 NFL Preview

The 2007 season is finally upon us. Is this the year the NFC reclaims the Lombardi Trophy? Fat chance says many if not all the experts. The AFC is as deep as it ever was. The NFL is still in its AFC swing as it was during the late 80's early 90's when the NFC was dominant. But I mean really the Bills were the bulk of those losses. Can the Chargers get over that hump and finally win a playoff game for the first time since what 1995? How will the Vick-less Falcons do? Will they have more players on the field than butts in the seat? Only time will tell. We'll start over in the AFC.

AFC East

1 - New England Patriots (12-4)
2 - New York Jets (9-7)
3 - Buffalo Bills (8-8)
4 - Miami Dolphins (6-10)

AFC North

1 - Baltimore Ravens (11-5)
2 - Cincinnati Bengals (10-6)
3 - Pittsburgh Steelers (8-8)
4 - Cleveland Browns (3-13)

AFC South

1 - Indianapolis Colts (11-5)
2 - Jackonville Jaguars (9-7)
3 - Houston Texans (6-10)
4 - Tennessee Titans (5-11)

AFC West

1 - San Diego Chargers (13-3)
2 - Denver Broncos (10-6)
3 - Oakland Raiders (5-11)
4 - Kansas City Chiefs (4-12)

NFC East

1 - Dallas Cowboys (10-6)
2 - Philadelphia Eagles (9-7)
3 - Washington Redskins (8-8)
4 - New York Giants (6-10)

NFC North

1 - Chicago Bears (11-5)
2 - Detroit Lions (6-10)
3 - Green Bay Packers (6-10)
4 - Minnesota Vikings (3-13)

NFC South

1 - New Orleans Saints (12-4)
2 - Carolina Panthers (8-8)
3 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5-11)
4 - Atlanta Falcons (2-14)

NFC West

1 - St. Louis Rams (10-6)
2 - San Francisco 49ers (9-7)
3 - Seattle Seahawks (9-7)
4 - Arizona Cardinals (5-11)

Playoffs

AFC Playoffs

Wild Card Weekend

Cincinnati at Baltimore
Denver at Indianapolis

Divisional Weekend

Cincinnati at San Diego
Indianapolis at New England

AFC Championship

Indianapolis at San Diego

AFC Champion - San Diego Chargers

NFC Playoffs

Wild Card Weekend

Philadelphia at Dallas
San Francisco at St. Louis

Divisional Weekend

Dallas at Chicago
St. Louis at New Orleans

NFC Championship

Dallas at New Orleans

NFC Champion - New Orleans Saints

Super Bowl

San Diego Chargers at New Orleans Saints

Super Bowl Champions

San Diego Chargers

Coach of the Year - Norv Turner

Offensive Player of the Year - LaDainian Tomlinson
Defensive Player of the Year - Brian Urlacher
Offensive Rookie of the Year - Adrian Peterson
Defensive Rookie of the Year - Jon Beason

So there you have it. That is how I see it for this year. I could have been boring and pick the Patriots like everyone else, but that wouldnt be fun. My surprise team is going to be the 49ers, who are going to make the playoffs due to a sweep of the Seahawks. I really think whoever comes out of the AFC with the least amount of injuries is going to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. I mean how fun would a LDT(yea thats right hes not THE LT aka Lawrence Taylor) vs Reggie matchup be? It's going to be fun to look back at this come February and laugh at myself on how wrong I was on some of these teams.

Say it Ain't So..

I mean can you get any greater of a start to the College Football season then we got? I'm sure everyone knows by now, and if you don't then where were you hiding all weekend? Appalachian St pulls off the shocker of them all by defeating Michigan 34-32 at the Big House. Good Game Lloyd Carr. So we didn't get off to a bad start despite our Pick of the Week. USC decided to play like little girls and play at a lesser speed then they even practice! I should have just used my picks from the pool I'm in. Overall I went 12-3 there and 7-3 here. Virginia Tech had a lackluster opening. I think they thought ECU was just going to roll over for them with all they had going on. ECU had a lot of momentum and if it wasn't for a pick thrown by the QB that was returned for a TD, the Hokies might also be singing sorry sorry night next to the Wolverines. If it wasn't for the spread I would only have lost 1 game, bah.

Georgia Tech 33 vs ND 3 - Win
Washington State 21 vs Wisonsin 42 - Win
Wake Forest 28 vs Boston College 38 - Win
East Carolina 7 vs Virginia Tech 17 - Loss
Oklahoma St 14 vs Georgia 35 - Win
Missouri 40 vs Illinois 34 - Win
Kansas St 13 vs Auburn 23 - Loss
Houston 21 vs Oregon 45 - Win
Florida St 18 vs Clemson 24 - Loss
Tennessee 31 vs Cal 45 - Win

Overall: 7-3

Pick of the Week

Idaho 10 vs USC 38 - Loss

Overall: 0-1

Tomorrow I should have my NFL season preview and picks for the week up. College picks should be up Thursday or Friday..and oh yeah up a little under 1k for the week in poker.

It's Football Time!!!!

College Football kicked off last night in a not so dramatic form. I'll tell you what though, the one thing that makes college sports what it is, is the the atmosphere. The only type of atmosphere that even comes close to a college game is an NFL playoff game...or if your watching Golden State in the playoffs. Even then I don't think they can match it. There are going to be tons of great games this year. September alone is a monster month filled with exciting matchups. And with that comes a little bit of Gambling. I'm in an pool with a bunch of the guys around the town, probably around 60-70 in all. It's very fun. I thought I'd take it a step further and pick 10 College Football and 10 Pro Games here on the blog and pick some winners. With that I'll keep track of Wins and Losses all season long. Considering there are no Pro Games until Thursday, a couple of college games will have to do.

Here's the format I'm going to use..

Philadelphia @ New York Giants + 3.5

Ok, so Philadelphia is at NY, the Giants are the home team. The home team is always going to dictate the spread. So here the Giants are getting 3.5 points. If it was -3.5, they would be giving those points. I think I'm also going to do 1 "Lock Game" for each college and NFL. These will be 2 games that are sure winners. On to this weeks picks..


1) Georgia Tech @ Notre Dame -2.5

I'm gonna go with Georgia Tech here. There are just too many questions regarding the ND offense. I'm not even sure of Charlie Weiss knows who he wants to start at QB.

Pick: Georgia Tech

2) Washington St @ Wisconsin -14.5

P.J. Hill is just too good for Washington St to handle. Coming off a 1500 yard 15 TD season as a Freshman, all signs point to another big year for this spectacular running back.

Pick: Wisconsin

3) Wake Forest @ Boston College -6.5

I think BC is going to have a great year. They are returning their star QB, Matt Ryan, who led one of the best passing offenses in the Nation last year. With the loss of Brian Toal, the defense is going to need some fresh faces to step up and be leaders. I see BC getting the nod here.

Pick: Boston College

4) East Carolina @ Virginia Tech -24.5

There is just too much to overcome here for Carolina. The emotion is going to be unreal as the Hokes storm onto the field in Blacksburg. The hokies just need to worry about covering the spread here for me.

Pick: Virginia Tech

5) Oklahoma St @ Georgia -6.5

Georgia has underachieved the last few years, putting up sub par records. Matt Stafford returns with a bunch of weapons on offense with Kregg Lumpkin and Mohammed Massoqui to name a few. They have some questions on Defense, but I think they will be alright.

Pick: Georgia

6) Missouri @ Illinois +5.5

All I'm going to say is Ron Zook.

Pick: Missouri

7) Kansas St @ Auburn -13.5

The Wildcats aren't going to know what hits them when they walk into Jordan-Hare stadium on Saturday. Even though he didn't start last year, Auburn returns Brad Lester who had a team high 9 rushing td's and 4.9 yards per carry. Auburn in a blowout.

Pick: Auburn

8) Houston @ Oregon -14.5

Derek Dixon and James Stewart come out in the Pistol formation, Dixon steps back and they run the option. Dixon cuts, pitches back to Stewart and hes at the 30...20...10...5...TD

Pick: Oregon

9) Florida State @ Clemson +3

It's another edition of the Bowden Bowl! It was bad enough that my Seminoles had to open with Miami, and since they didn't renew the contract, they are scheduling different opponents. Now, you would think Bobby Bowden would learn and open with a cupcake team, but that's certainly not the case here. However, he did finally shake up his coaching staff with the boldest moving firing his offensive coordinator(his son). FSU and Clemson both return pretty much everybody, so why is anything going to be different this year? I'm going to give my Noles' some credit since they are coming into the season after a Bowl victory last year, and the Tigers dropping 4 of their last 5 including a bowl loss to...Kentucky? OOOOOOOOOO oooo OOOOOO oooooo OOOOO dun dun dun dun dun dun

Pick: Florida State

10) Tennessee @ California -5.5

The most anticipated game of the first week of the season is no doubt the Vols vs the Bears. After getting absolutely destroyed last year at Tennessee, Cal has been licking their chops all summer long to get another crack at Phil Fulmer's squad. Speaking of Fulmer, he is 14-1 in season openers. How is Tennessee going to get plays into the game when Cal is planning to distribute 50,000 megaphones before the game to its fans. Are we kidding? I think this game is really a tossup with the spread. It could end up playing out like last year with Cal getting the quick start on Tennessee since they're are at home. I'm going to go with a 28-20 win for Cal when Nate Longshore throws a fade to DeSean Jackson to put the Bears up for good.

Pick: Cal


*Pick of the Week*

Idaho @ USC -49

Oh that's right my friends. The only thing that would have saved Idaho is Pete Carroll was buddies with Idaho's D-Coordinator. They might have eased off the pedal...if he was still there. He is now with Carroll's staff so there is no holding back. The only thing funnier about a 7 TD spread is that they are actually going to cover...easily

Pick: USC


So that does it for this week. I tried to pick some games that were going to be competitive for my regular picks. Being the first week of the season it's kind of hard to find some. Check back next week where I have my NFL Season Preview, complete with your Superbowl winner.